₦airaland Forum

SafetyFirst:
Rogue nation

Na real rogue nation. The Level of impunity in Nigeria is scary!!

soccerlite:
Some of you just hear one political gribbish someone and resound it

Which tax gangan are a lot people not paying

Many people collect rent and don't pay a dime on it. I have 3 properties and I don't pay shi shi

ogododo:
https://dailypost.ng/2023/10/14/imf-proposes-higher-taxes-as-solution-to-nigerias-fiscal-challenge/

The article headline/topic is misleading!! The topic says higher taxes, but the article sys more revenues. They are not the same thing.

More revenue can be raised by increasing the collection efficiency and bringing people into the tax net, while taxes rates are exactly the same!!

mfm04622:
Yet, we are a poor country, not because of corruption, but because of our population compared to how much we make as income

Combination of both actually

WhisperedNoise:
I thought underaged betting is illegal. These betting sites should be thoroughly vetted by government agencies. They are becoming a nuisance to young people in the country.

Abi young people are becoming a nuisance to themselves!!

Afobaba33:
Vigilante work directly with the military operations


The strike was based on intelligence gathering


So no cause for alarm

And talking of the terrorist weapon oga look well at the first picture,you will see it in the rubble's


Some have been picked up by military personnel in the pictures


Open your eyes

Are you minding them. Nigerians type before they look and think!!

Omooba77:
https://saharareporters.com/2023/10/10/breaking-labour-minister-suspends-mc-oluomo-baruwas-factions-nigerian-transport-workers

NURTW as a whole should be banned across Nigeria as a whole. What value do they add exactly? I do not see 1 positive thing they add to citizens or government. Yet I can see like 5 negatives!! So why are they even in existence?

DREAMHOMES6970:
Op you said over 100 bodies, what am seeing here is not up to 15. Anyway nice one cus if it were before we won't see any evidence

So you expect there to be pictures of every single body on the floor abi?? Na wa o!!

Philipmoon2:
I suspect something fishy, why are they burning them so that they won't be recognized, and i did not see any Aka 47, it's only knife that i saw. Sometimes i don't trust Nigeria military

The report says NAF (Nigerian Airforce) dropped bombs on them, you are asking why the military burned the bodies?? Na wa o!!

obiekunie01:
PLS HOW COMES THERE IS NO SINGLE WEAPON ON THE GROUND THERE?

How comes the 'terrorists' don't have any weapon on them.

The very first picture on the left, no be gun be that? With explosive that powerful to dismember bodies that way, it would do the same to machine guns. Besides the military folks could very easily have picked up any weapons still deemed usable before the pictures were taken.

You must be one of those who always claim that while military always go after bunkerers and IPOB/ESN, they never attack herdsmen and militants in the north. Hope you have seen now?

Zandena:
This is evil, callous, wicked and disastrous to the public universities!
Imagine an agency of government established to help public tertiary institutions in infrastructure and modern teaching facilities would now extend the gesture to privately owned businesses/ institutions whose primary objective is to cripple public institutions.
What is wrong with our government oh God!

"Whose primary objective is to cripple public institutions"! Really!!! This statement alone exposes the quality of your critical thinking and reasoning ability!

jimmyolasun:
And who tell you Saudi go still dey pay that kind cash in the next ten years Only if you just dey enter adulthood, look up china and others wey don try am before... Naa just first sets of players dey enjoy the looting. Once likes of Ronaldo and few o retires, you see Neymar go go Brazil back and then once the likes of mbappe and halland with Bellingham still dey fight for Europe with no big name going to Saudi, they go back to default. Naa wetin do China be that before dey realize money no fit buy it all... Not in football

Very good point! I had almost forgot about the time China was also offering big bucks. They have calmed down now!

flexyrule:
A country that God blessed with crude oil, has not been able to build one functional refinery in over 30 years. it's data center that you think they'll go and start losing sleep on?

Seems some of you underestimate the uselessness of this country.

Serious.

As far as it doesn't affect the elites, they won't do it!

I agree that it will be a challenge, but don’t be too negative. Main One has data center in Lagos. So also Galaxy backbone I think, which is government owned. Like I said, if the will is there it could be done.

The Uber app is expensive because as a public company they are constantly pressured by Wall Street for bigger and bigger profits.

If we make ours non profit oriented. Just focused on break even and a bit more for upgrade in new tech etc, it could be done.

I want to believe ride hailing drivers across the country should number like 200k.

If 200k people pay N20k a month in a year as service charges to the app, thats N48billion annually.

flexyrule:
The government would also buy Amazon Web Servers right?

Or you think it's just the app?.

Have you ever wondered why the network downtime on these apps is usually less than 1%?

And the app is almost 100% online?

Where there is a will, there is a way. We have data centers here in Nigeria don’t we? We can use another data center somewhere else say Ghana or SA for redundancy. Theses technologies are known, we don’t have to depend on Oyinbo for everything. After all the Netflix server for west Africa is in Ghana or is it Ivory Coast.

SoNature:
I like that Fela Durotoye made the list. I want to see him because Nigeria's president someday! Congratulations to him!

I hope not. Listened to the guy speak before. Not a lot of real understanding of issues in my view. Motivational speakers tend to say a lot without saying anything.

I rate Donald Duke over him.

braine:
Vehicle type, the app and specific characters influence profit.

You cannot use a car with V6 engine that will finish your fuel on time.

Bolt charges 20%, indriver 10%, why would one use uber that charges 35%? Thats sick.

Funny enough,this is where FG could help people. How about if the Ministry of Technology commissioned some tech guys to develop a Nigerian version of Uber that is owned by the government for which drivers pay 5%. The technology is already available. This is how the FG could help Nigerian youth. Besides it helps keep the money in country. Why would Uber take 35%of our local money for what?

Oyindamolah:
You are not a smart business man, we have inhud, bolt and co why stick with only Uber plus your story doesn't add up, how many liters did you buy?

Just give him the advice! You don't have to insult him by saying he isn't smart!!!

OmoOgunOriginal:
https://platformtimes.com.ng/special-report-suffering-knows-no-bounds-ogun-roads-collapse-amidst-abioduns-lg-chairmans-callous-indifference/

Did Abeokuta people come out to protest for Mohbad!? If so you folks should call on those same folks to come out to protest against your governor.

metodman:
If my memory serves me right, I think power is always relatively better in Nigeria during wet season?

There are reasons for that.

Hydro power generation is better during that period

Weather is much cooler and electricity conducts better in cool weather, so transmission losses are less

Due to cool weather people don't use AC as much, so demand is much lower, so there is more electricity to go round. In June, July, August and September I could sleep with just fan, but in the last few weeks, its been getting quite hot so I am now using AC more.

The grid is more stable due to all the reasons above

wunmi590:
Lol, Ogun state doesn't have a governor, I don't pity the people who are from there, because no matter how iou convinced them, once they dash them 2k, they will still go ahead and vote for incompetent..

If not that my wife said she doesn't like the life of Lagos, Abeokuta is a no no for me

Has nothing to do with the governor actually. It's all about the capacity of Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company (IBEDC). You can see that most areas under their network Oyo, Ogun, Osun, Kwara are struggling with availability of electricity. The problem is that asides IKEDC, EKEDC, Abuja DISCO and maybe PH Disco, others are serving pretty poor states, so they are struggling with their revenue profile, so no money to invest.

Terrible in my family house in Ashi-Bodija in Ibadan. If you see light once in 4 days, apparently that's a good outcome

Hoping that the progress we are seeing in Lagos will soon spread out to other parts of the country!!

stepaside1:
The Power decentralisation act has been signed into Law, enabling States and other entities participate in the Power value chain. Real challenge is upon us and we are still speaking grammar like many Nigerians do. Apart from Edo and Lagos States, who else is taking this challenge up? Talk is cheap

Even if a Power Act is passed by a State, it doesn't magically mean anything will improve anytime soon. Is it these our bankrupt states? There is still plenty of work to be done before we see improvements. In the case of Lagos, the following still need to happen:

Lagos Electricity Regulatory Agency will need to be set up

LERA will need to engage with NERC and DISCO's on its planned regulations

Except LASG plans to lay new parallel cables to everybody's house, it will need to engage EKEDC and IKEDC on how best to achieve this improved supply.

To improve supply, more electricity will need to come from somewhere. This will need to be sorted out. This costs money and takes time.

Even if Lagos plans to take electricity from an existing plant somewhere that has excess capacity, a transmission line will need to be built to deliver it to Lagos. Before its built, it will need to be tendered, contract awarded before a contractor even starts work.

These state laws will take minimum of 3 years before we begin to see any impact.

wunmi590:
Good morning Nairalanders,

Based on the report that, the federal government have increased the National grid from 13,000MW to 14,000MW.

What is the light situation in your area currently? Is it constant or still bad?

https://www.nairaland.com/7870272/fg-grows-national-grid-power

what's the light situation in your area

Capacity and Generation are two different things. Besides the headline is also wrong. Its not National grid capacity that has grown to 14,000MW. Its actually installed generation capacity.

However, electricity is much better in Lekki, Lagos. In Ologolo area of Lekki in the past 3months, we've been averaging 20hrs a day.
Lagos will naturally benefit more from the improvement because Lagos has more people with capacity to pay.

EcoBrick:
https://punchng.com/fg-grows-national-grid-power-capacity-to-14000mw/

Capacity and Generation are two different things. Besides the headline is also wrong. Its not National grid capacity that has grown to 14,000MW. Its actually generation installed capacity.

And the problem is that while generation capacity is 14000MW, actual generation is about 5000MW, mainly due to unavailability of gas. But even if we generated the entire 14,000MW, we wouldn't be able to wheel all of that power due to the limited capacity of the grid, which is also about 5000MW.

However, if we decentralized the grid, a generation plant in Kaduna that cannot send enough into the national grid can create its own transmission line to send power directly to Abuja DISCO.

Our politicians should be put in jail for these types of wasted projects! Not necessarily because the Governor stole money, but because he wasted money!!

We need to have a Federal Project Value for Money Law

UncleKoboko:
Okay.
The most important thing is, WHAT MEGAWATTS OF ELECTRICITY IS NIGERIA GENERATING AND DISTRIBUTING AT THE MOMENT AND IN YEARS?

Nigeria is such a shameless, USELESS and empty country filled with the most evil, senseless, corrupt and old fool leaders.

South Africa here is producing almost 250,000 megawatts of electricity, while Nigeria claiming giant of Africa can't even produce up 30,000.
THAT MEANS SOUTH AFRICA IS PRODUCING ALMOST X10, IMAGINE!

HOW CAN A COUNTRY SURVIVE AND PROGRESS WITH ELECTRICITY IN THIS MODERN AGE?
YET, NIGERIA STILL REMAINS 6TH LARGEST PRODUCER OF CRUDE OIL IN THE WORLD.

WHAT A SHAME!

No need to exaggerate. South Africa produces about 50,000 megawatts of electricity. However even this reality is an embarrassment to Nigeria, but there's just no need to exaggerate. Google is your friend

LASG should get the insurers of the truck to pay for damages. And if the truck owner has no insurance, then he should pay for the repairs out of pocket.

Nothing makes people have sense more than having to cough up money they don't have.

FreeStuffsNG:
https://autojosh.com/anambra-state-delegation-understudies-the-operations-of-lagos-state-motor-vehicle-administration-agency/

What is there to understudy? What is complicated in registering vehicles? So the folks is Anambra have no brain power to design a simple process of vehicle registration by themselves??

Tracka:
seriously Osinbajo really tried when he was heading the program, no one was owned and the operation was smooth including school feeding program.... suddenly, Cabals moved the program to humanitarian ministry, that is where embezzlement started. is so bad

The fact that he was paying the money regularly is not enough to say Osinbajo tried! The objective is not to give money for free, but to ensure that the work was being done commensurate to the money paid. If no work was being done while Osinbajo was managing it, then he didn't try!!

VULCAN:
One day the South will be free of these neanderthals.

Britain did us a major disservice to be yoked to these cretins.

There is no difference btw how the North would have fared and how the country Niger looks like if not for Southern oil.

Too bad we have so many traitorous Southerners who have been used by the oppressors to override the will of the majority in the South.

Honestly, Nigeria's backwardness can be traced to Northern Presidents and Head of State. Nigeria's best times were under Obasanjo, but see the mess Buhari put us in. All they know is corruption, deals and stealing mixed with crass incompetence.

During Obasanjo time Middle class grew, we had up to $60bln in external reserves, we paid down our debt.

Buhari did the exact opposite of all of these.

rolams:
Christians in Yobe state are not up to 20% I am telling you this. Majority of the Christians in Yobe are non-indigene.

The person you quoted, did he mention Yobe at all!!?

Dem go ask you 5*2 for JAMB, you go solve 5+2!